RP/EGEAS OVERVIEW Mr. Wah Sing Ng NG Planning LLC Mr. Bill Fleck Independent Consultant EPRI Program 178b Webcast April 18, 2014
Part 1: Resource Planning Overview
Brief History of EGEAS Developed in 1983 as an EPRI research project Pi Primary contractors t Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. and MIT Energy Lab. Previous version release dates: Version 1 1983 Initial release Version 2 1985 Storage optimization, Must-run, Spinning reserve Version 3 1986 Purchase & sale contracts, Incremental costs Version 4 1989 Financial constraints Version 5 1990 Fuel constraints, Multi-area modeling Version 6 1990 Emission Constraints, System average rate Version 7 1993 Revenues, Avoided costs, Risk analysis Version 8 1996 Multi-Parameter Gamma method Version 9 1997 Bid-based pricing 3
Brief History of EGEAS (Cont.) Up to version 9.02, EGEAS was maintained and licensed by Stone & Webster until December 1997 After 1997, version 9.02 was maintained and licensed by EPRI Current version 10 April 2014, can be licensed from EPRI or NG Planning LLC Next version 11 Scheduled for April 2015 4
Resource Planning Overview Find BEST expansion plan to meet projected customer demands, taking into consideration: Low cost energy Acceptable system reliability Operating system flexibility Fuel supply security & diversityit Environmental regulations Corporate financial i health 5
Resource Planning Overview Low Cost Energy: Capital costs of new plants Operating costs of generation system Minimize i i sum of capital & operating costs 6
Resource Planning Overview Acceptable System Reliability: Loss-of-Load L Probability: bilit 1 day/10years Unserved or unmet energy: MWh/year Percent reserve margin: 15% 7
Resource Planning Overview Operating System Flexibility: Mix of fdifferent ttypes of resources Baseload operates around the clock Intermediate t 8t to 12hours per day Peaking few hours per day 8
Resource Planning Overview Characteristics Baseload Intermediate Peaking Operating Hours/day 24 8 12 1-2 Operating Costs Low Medium High Capital Costs High Medium Low > $2000 $800-$1000 $600-$800 Plant Types Coal Gas CCs Gas CTs Hydro Hydro Hydro Typical Mix 50 70% 20 30% 10 20% 9
Resource Planning Overview Fuel supply security & diversity: Fuel security Dual fuel, multiple suppliers, multiple sources, etc. Fuel diversity Nuclear, coal, natural gas, oil, hydro, wind, solar, etc. 10
Environmental Regulations Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 (CAAA) SO 2, O 3, CO, and PM-10 Recent EPA Regulations CWIS Cooling Water Intake Structures t CCR Coal Combustion Residuals CSAPR Cross State Air Pollution Rule MATS Mercury and Air Toxics Standards Greenhouse Gases (GHG) Carbon emissions reduction 11
Corporate Financial Health Investor-Owned Utilities Financing i requirements Cash flow requirments Level and quality of earnings Dividends Municipal Agencies Interest & other coverages In-lieu of taxes 12
Classical Planning Method Using Separate Planning Models 1. Capacity or reliability model to determine new capacity requirements 2. Production cost model to determine total system operating costs 3. Economic model to combine capacity and production costs on a present worth basis 4. Iterate steps 1-3 for different expansion plans, until you reach the approximate lowest cost plan 13
Optimization Method Using a Single Planning Model Like EGEAS 1. Automates the classical planning method, and evaluates all possible combinations of plans to reach the least-cost plan 2. Input load forecast, costs and characteristics ti for existing resources and purchase power contracts and for all future potential planning options 3. Run the optimization model, sit back, relax, enjoy a cup of coffee, and get the right answers. 14
Integrated Resources Planning Process Situation Analysis Load Forecast Screen DSM Map DSM into Resource Screen Supply-side Resource Plan Optimization Financial Analysis Risk Analysis Plan & Implementation 15
RP WORKSTATION RPW (EPRI) EGEAS (EPRI) DSMLINK (EPRI) 16
Part 2: Overview of EGEAS
EGEAS - Overview Electric Generation Expansion Analysis System Version 10.00 18
EGEAS Software Components ORTH EDIT CANAL REPORT 19
EGEAS Purpose and Functions Primary Purpose - Find the optimum (least-cost) integrated resource plan for meeting demand by expanding both supply-side and demand-side resources Objective Functions: Present value of revenue requirements System levelized average rate 20
Optimization Methods Dynamic Program (DP) is based on the enumeration of all possible combinations of resource additions while meeting user-specified constraints. Generalized Bender s Decomposition is a non- linear technique based on an iterative interaction between a linear master problem and a non-linear probabilistic production costing sub-problem. 21
Additional Optimization Methods Screening Curve Option - Produces (cost by capacity factor) results for evaluating large numbers of alternatives. Pre-specified Pathway Option - Provides more detailed analysis of an expansion plan than is computationally feasible within an optimization. Also allows user-defined plans to be analyzed. 22
Optimization Constraints Utilized Reliability Reserve margin - maximum or minimum i Unmet energy - maximum Loss-of-Load L probability bilit maximum Tunneling Used to specify the upper and lower limits of the annual and/or cumulative number of resource additions available for consideration 23
Optimization Constraints (continued) Environmental Optimize i to a pollutant t cap level l Incorporate system, site or unit limits Fuel use Limited fuel Target fuel use Take-or-pay fuel 24
Supply-Side Alternatives Thermal units Retirement of existing facilities Staged resources Life extension Hydro Storage Non Dispatchable Technologies (NDT) 25
Demand-Side Management (DSM) Alternatives Conservation Load management Peak clipping Load shifting Storage Rate design Strategic marketing 26
EGEAS Additional Capabilities Purchase and sale contracts Interconnections with 9 other systems Avoided capacity and operating costs Customer class revenue and sales Environmental tracking and emissions dispatch for up to 8 user-defined variables 27
Production Costing Capabilities (1 of 3) Four capacity levels Rated Operating Emergency Reserve capacities Change capacity levels by year and month Up to five loading points or blocks Capacities, heat rates and forced outages Automatic & fixed maintenance scheduling Spinning reserve designations and options 28
Production Costing Capabilities (3 of 3) Monthly fuel pricing & target limitations Minimum, i maximum and target t percentages Operating and maintenance costs Transmission and distribution costs Dispatch modifier costs Monthly limited energy data 29
Production Costing Capabilities (3 of 3) Monthly fuel pricing & target limitations Minimum, i maximum and target t percentages Operating and maintenance costs Transmission and distribution costs Dispatch modifier costs Monthly limited energy data 30
NG Planning LLC Services Commercial license with EPRI for EGEAS: Sublicense EGEAS to new users Provide RP consulting services using EGEAS Partnering with EPRI to make enhancements to EGEAS (Version 11, April 2014 April 2015) Partnering with EPRI to expand EGEAS user base Provides maintenance & technical (M&T) support services for EGEAS program Provides setup and training services for EGEAS Coordinates EGEAS User Group meetings 31
NG Planning LLC User Group Meetings Annual meeting typically late summer/early fall Schedule two half days to accommodate travel Participants open to all EGEAS users Past locations MISO offices in St Paul, MN Future locations open to suggestions/sponsors Purposes of user group meetings: Provide a forum for users to exchange information on the use and application of EGEAS Provide a forum for users to suggest and recommend improvements and new enhancements Provide a forum to communicate with EPRI on current related research projects and funding availability 32
EGEAS Version 10 Features Consolidation of one-stop licensing process (EPRI or NG Planning LLC) Consolidated EGEAS, User Interface, DSMLINK, and RPWorkstation programs Eliminated Finance+ and Riskmin programs which are not supported or used Added d consistent t EPRI copyright, logo, and disclaimers i to all software All programs labeled as version 10.00 Updated EGEAS Capabilities and all other User s manuals 33
EGEAS Version 11 Features Two new enhancements will be added: Dump energy penalty factor Add a penalty to the fuel and O&M costs for the energy that needs to be dumped Renewable portfolio standard (RPS) constraint Ensure that a minimum percent of system generation is supplied by certain units Fix any known EGEAS program bugs Update user s manuals 34
EGEAS Applications in General Integrated Resource Planning (IRP) Studies Production cost analysis System reliability analysis Emissions compliance and planning Renewable portfolio standards analysis Plant life management analysis Existing plant retirement analysis IPP and Cogeneration proposal analyses Sensitivity and break-even cost analyses 35
Example EGEAS Applications in the U.S. MISO Regional Resource Forecasting, Demand-Side Resources, Renewable Portfolio Standards, EPA Regulations, Value Proposition, and others. WPL IRP study and CN application IPL IRP study and CN application WE IRP study and CN application WPS IRP study and CN application WPL/WPS/MGE Compliance planning study SMMPA IRP study PSC of WI Review IRP studies filed by utilities 36
Examples of EGEAS Applications - International Malaysia Long-range resource planning study Saudi Arabia Generation & transmission optimization Guam Long-range resource planning study Barbados Long-range resource planning study Egypt License for EGEAS, Resource planning study Israel License for EGEAS, Gas conversion study Thailand License for EGEAS Taiwan License for EGEAS Philippines License for EGEAS South Korea License for EGEAS South Africa License for EGEAS 37
Other Resource Optimization Models STRATEGIST by Ventyx MARKET POWER by Ventyx SYSTEM OPTIMIZER by Ventyx PLEXOS by Energy Exemplar AURORA by EPIS, Inc. UPLAN by LCG Consulting ENPEP (WASP) by Argonne National Labs 38